One of the owners of historic Vernon Mount House in Cork, which was completely destroyed in a suspected arson attack, said he is “gutted” at the loss of the property but believes it can be saved.

Rush hour traffic came to a standstill for nearly two hours yesterday morning on the southside of Cork City, following two separate collisions that saw four people suffer minor injuries.

A free parking initiative on almost 2,000 parking spaces in Cork City is set to be introduced next week in a bid to boost pre-Christmas trade.

Immigrant support groups have called for the lifting of a ban on political canvassing in direct provision centres.

Cork start-up company Tweekaboo is targeting a million users with its mobile app, which allows families to catalogue childhood memories in a private online space, writes Trish Dromey.

A novel packaging idea has paved the way to success for Keohane Seafoods, writes Trish Dromey, with the Cork company hoping to grow exports by between 20%-25% in the next three to four years.

IT IS, at best, a troubled relationship. We have in this country a prof-essional group made up of individuals we all hope we never get to meet.

Bord Gáis was prosecuted yesterday by the Data Protection Commission for sending an email promoting a charitable fundraiser which ended up netting €150,000 for St Vincent de Paul.

More than 1,000 free parking spaces will be made available in Cork City in the run-up to Christmas in a bid to boost trade.

A Nigerian asylum seeker believed she would be giving herself an advantage in the Irish naturalisation process by presenting a false Zimbabwean passport to gardaí.

Size matters when it comes to supporting the Cork hurlers.

SECURE SEATING

HAVING never seen an electric bike before, I had the false preconception that it was a first cousin to the electric car and that you could drive it like those bicycles you sometimes see in France with a little motor attached to the front wheel.

A new tax on pay-parking income has cost a cash-strapped local authority over €2m in two years.

This three-bed home is close to amenities, Tommy Barker reports

A city is to unveil its plans for a new “Central Park” on the site of a massive former dump.

The workers who spent more than five months occupying a factory in pursuit of redundancy payments have been invited to dine with the President.

The main firm in the Vita Cortex group recorded losses totalling €1.75m last year, new figures show.

Ambitious plans to transform a former city dump into one of the country’s largest adventure, leisure, and recreation parks have been unveiled.

Now that the local authorities are awash with funds from the household charge, would it be too much to expect the relevant body would throw a dab of paint on the road markings at the Kinsale Rd roundabout in Cork?

The long-awaited deal to secure the Vita Cortex workers ex-gratia redundancy was finally signed off on yesterday.

After their marathon sit-in, former Vita Cortex workers could barely contain their excitement that the dispute was finally over and they could look forward to going home.

The National Roads Authority is to carry out a €1m revamp of the dual carriageway between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and Bishopstown and rename it the N40 in the first phase of creating an orbital route for Cork city.

There are two separate collisions on the N25 South Ring Road in Cork this evening, on both sides of the Kinsale Rd round-about.

Workers protesting at the former Vita Cortex factory in Cork today said they had locked the gates of the site in what amounted to an escalation of the dispute.

ST Valentine’s night is peak season for dinner à deux and I’ll be looking at some smoochy wine ideas next week.

Due to flooding in Cork, a number of services are currently being diverted, Bus Éireann said this afternoon.